What’s New in TECHNIA Software 2021?

The TECHNIA Software 2021 releases include improvements, updates and resolution of known defects in Value Components (TVC – Classic and Helium mode), Integration Framework (TIF), Light My Way (LMW), CAVA and Lite3D.

Value Components

• Support for 3DEXPERIENCE 2021x
• Define the UI online in-app by an admin or by an end-user and share it with others
• Introduction of Team Management
• Added advance expression support for columns and charts
• Bidirectional Drag and Drop support between Helium and TVC/OOTB 3DDashboard widgets
• Helium table improvements
• Multi value column support
• Arrow key navigation for efficient editing
• Improved update behavior cell edit

Release 2021.3

• Helium Tables
  • Column resize and content truncation in Helium
  • Multi value filtering
• Collapsible sections in Helium form
• Invoke service implementation in Helium
• User-Defined UIs
  • Revise configuration
  • easy access to shared dashboards
• Collaboration
  • Built-in workflow task column
  • Active task deletion
  • Workflow history
• Search Improvements
  • User-defined search limit
  • Integration with Federated Search

Release 2021.4

• Helium Tables
  • Data Grouping
  • Mass Update
• New Helium Chart Library
• In-App Designer (User Defined UIs)
  • Preview and Update Draft Dashboard
• Collaboration
  • Workflow trigger improvements
  • Built in commands to open, close, print and delete discussion
• Search Improvements
  • New and Improved Date Picker
• 3DDashboard
  • New widget types — Form, Search, Tabbed Page
  • Drag and Drop support for True Widget
• File Manager extension published on Microsoft Store

• Structure Browser

• Release 2021.1
  • Invoke service client-side and multiservice support
  • Improved path and related object columns
  • ‘Sideloading’ of File Manager extension in Microsoft Edge
  • Access control on non-contextual Helium pages
• Release 2021.2
  • Ability to use Helium forms for calling ‘invoke service’ with user input
  • Support for using ‘physical id’ in Path and Related Object columns
  • Collaboration Configurations for Ad-hoc task creation
  • Flexible workflow and task email notifications
  • Highlighted workflow task for easy access and navigation
  • Search Improvements
  • Ability to apply saved searches for dynamic and conditional fields
  • Resizable search panel in classic
  • Built-in column type to see attachments connected via Path query
  • Ability to save Helium forms as templates
  • Built in CDM (Common Document Model) details view column for Helium tables
  • Shared data loader for charts in Helium Dashboard

+ New MCAD Optimizer for UPS

• Set of base configurations for Unified Product Structure (UPS) definition used by CATIA 3DEXPERIENCE & X-CAD PowerBy’ connectors
• UPS Navigator for context object Physical Product to show structure with related objects like Changes, Documents, Duplicates, Branches or Revisions
• Search UPS from both 3DSpace & 3Ddashboard without Exalead
• My Root Products – Engineer homepage

Value Components Launchpads

• Work with documents in standalone or integrated Helium widget
• Preview & update details for Requirements Structure at Helium & Classic
• Create CATIA & X-CAD PowerBy’ data (CATIA V5, Solidworks, Inventor, AutoCAD) from 3DSpace & 3DDashboard (experiment mode)
• Enable working with UPS and related data with a ‘3DSPACE-like’ way using a TVC Helium widget inside 3DDASHBOARD
• New TVC Helium views for Issue Management, Document Management and Change Process, reusing existing OOTB services ensuring compatibility
• End-to-end Document Management at 3DDASHBOARD with Workflows & File Manager

Release 2021.3

• Taske management support to complemenet OOTB. Available for TVC Classic and Helium in 3DSPACE and 3DDashboard
• Workflow for Change Actions, Physical Product Structure, and Documents
• Support for 2021x version of 3DEXPERIENCE

Release details

Value Components

Value Components – Helium

Integration Framework

• Legacy Admin UI removed
• Enhancements to Job Queues and Services View in Admin UI
• HTTP destination configuration in destinations file allows password encoding

Release 2021.3

• Introducing support for the Apache Kafka event streaming platform
  • Pushing data to or consuming data from Kafka topics are now built into TIF as well as controlling asynchronous replies via Kafka topics
• Enhanced security by prevention of XXE injection
• Admin UI improvements, included improved configurability for configurable REST services

Release 2021.4

• Smaller updates
• Added analysis feature around thread information in Admin UI.

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Integration Framework

Light My Way

The release includes improvements and resolution of known defects in Light My Way.

Release 2021.3

• All configurations now stored inside a database instead of in files
• Configuration and instruction exports now supports exporting from different versions
• Utilizing local caching for enhanced performance
• Create and manage configuration using the new Admin UI

Admin Role

Release 2021.1

• Update nodes to 14.15 LTS
• Support for 3DX 2014X
• Updated configuration schema files
• Add configuration option to ignore anchors for specific elements

Release 2021.2

• Added template conditions for 3DDASHBAORD UI (conditions can be hidden from the UI or enabled by default)

Author

Release 2021.1

• Improved callout layout control – positioning of the callout
• More callout colors are available
• Hide Callouts while in select mode

Release 2021.2

• Color HTML elements during selection
• Allow multiple authors to create/edit/delete groups and instructions by changing from file storage to database storage of the recordings
• Rich Text editor for instruction and group descriptions
• Many UX improvements for a better experience
• Add a search to easily find groups, instructions or tags

Release 2021.3

• Allow locked conditions to be disabled
• Add drag and drop support for instructions
• Overall UI improvements

Consumer

Release 2021.1

• Reposition on scroll
• Callout Display preferences
• Make non-hovered Callouts transparent
• Hide Group Label in Callouts
• Truncate non-hovered Callout description
• Server and WebExtension Version compatibility check

Release 2021.2

• Info Callout is now animated for better identification/localization
• Trigger Create/Update Integration via Job Events
• Create or update objects back in 3DEXPERIENCE based on response from remote system after executing a job
• Create Update Integration – Interfaces Assign interfaces to objects upon create based on conditions
• Admin UI Progress Log
• Get more insight in Job execution via Job Progress Logs available in the Admin UI for some Job types.

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CAVA 1.32.4

This release contains support for new versions of automotive standards as well as defect fixes and usability improvements.

New and updated standards:

• Pedestrian Protection: ECE R-127 Rev.03
• Child Protection: AUS ADR 34 rev.03
• Mirror for trucks: Additions to ECE-R 46 rev. 06 and AIS-002 rev. 1

Benefits:

• Pedestrian Protection – new additions to the latest ECE R-127 rev. 3 standards incorporated.
• A CAVA user can now easily and quickly create the modified Bonnet Top test area, the new Windscreen test area and new Cowl area according to the latest requirements in the standard.

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Lite3D 2021.1

With the new Lite3D product portfolio 2021.1, TECHNIA meets the needs of many users.

Lite3D is known as a platform for effortless collaboration with lean 3D data on the JT format.

TECHNIA now extends the free version of LiteBox3D with a proprietary reader for STEP AP242ed1 files (ISO 10303-242).

This first version of the reader contains:

• Support of uncompressed “.stp” files and compressed ASCII-STEP files with the file extension “.stpZ”
• Reading of tessellated data
• Reading of monolithic assemblies
• No support for reading exact geometry (B-REP) and product manufacturing information (PMI)

The reader is a beta version and will be closed in order to meet customer authorizations and contracts. Please contact us for more information.

Furthermore, this major release provides improvements to the user interface, and several new functions for each product.

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